Haleslock 4 Apart from being hosted in the beautiful city of Paris, France, IPP37 is also an event to remember for the wonderful exchange puzzles; most notably the exchange of not one, not two but
Category: Exchange Puzzle
The Eiffel (Tower) Burr
If I thought the Eiffel Burr interlocking puzzle was anything like the Vivaldi Burr, both designed by Rene Dawir, I couldn’t be further from the truth. More about this later. The Eiffel Burr was Rene’s
Heblo
Heblo was Patrick Major’s IPP37 Exchange puzzle. If you are familiar with wooden puzzles, Heblo has all the typical hallmarks of a Vinco puzzle- with all the nice smooth curves and exotic looking colourful woods.
S’Paid In Full
S’Paid In Full is the 4th and last puzzle instalment in Scott Elliot’s playing cards suit series of Exchange Puzzles. Notice the choice of words for the name of his puzzle? This suit series started
HOPE
For the last several years, I have always received acrylic sliding block puzzles from collector and designer Dinair Namdarian of Germany during the IPP Puzzle Exchange. Afterall he is very well known for his sliding
Long & Short
This is an interesting Stewart Coffin designed puzzle that was exchanged by Rob Jones at IPP37 in Paris this past August. It’s also my first “pin-hole” puzzle from Coffin. Looking at the photos you will
Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge, a “trick opening” puzzle is designed by Stephan Baumegger and it also won a “Top 10 Vote Getter Award” during the IPP37 Puzzle Design Competition. Stephan is a prolific puzzle designer (at last count with
Non-Void Cube “Burr” Puzzle
Here’s the first of my of blog posts on the puzzles which I had the pleasure of exchanging with 95 other participants at the recent IPP37 Puzzle Exchange in Paris, France. This one looks like a